What with each of the Van Gaal nonsense, Arsenal shenanigans, and Klopp love, the query of who’s going to win the calendar year league has been practically absolutely overlooked. With only 4 games to go, the race actually is on for the statistically pleasant and yet utterly pointless honour of becoming the best of 2015.

Except it isn’t – Arsenal are miles ahead and could even sew up the title this weekend:

It is precisely the type of point you’d count on Arsenal to win, to become fair. In other news, Leicester happen to be very good for really some time (Champions League good, that may be), and Chelsea have carried out monumentally badly.
James, Reading FC, Leeds

Giroud: An option, not the solution
Since his mid-week hatrick antics the Handsome French bloke’s enjoy in’s got going again. Very baffling because I feel a great deal of Arsenal fans had just moved over to the view that he shouldn’t be central to our aspirations.

I was a single with the quite a few AFC followers who threw all my toys inside the path from the assorted F365 and ESPN writers who mentioned we couldn’t hope to win huge items with Oli G at the concentrate of our attack. These views came about in the back finish of a run where he had scored eight targets in around 8 games, but then missed around 200 probabilities against Monaco.

Immediately after this point his performances regressed, then this season we saw how much freedom the team gained with a mobile striker like Theo. I was then re-convinced that Giroud was the kind of substitute, not starter, who would win you things. In addition, it became quite noticeable that his presence blunted Alexis’ output to fairly some extent.

Now, more than ever I agree with all the sentiments, initial espoused by Nick Miller I consider, that he is an selection, not the option. Invaluable as a game changer from the bench, or at instances when Alexis is injured. Seeking back at the Man Utd group of 99, acquiring a player who’ll score a objective every other game and nonetheless be happy to sit on the bench may well be the top essential to achievement. If we win the league this year, I reckon long in the future we’ll recall Oli G, like they bear in mind Ole Gunnar